Natural Language in your Browser

How great would it be if you could just tell your browser what you wanted and have it obey you? Well, that’s just what the guys down at Mozilla Labs are working towards with their prototype of some new technology they called Ubiquity. It tries to address the issue of having to open multiple web browser windows to perform different actions, often cutting and pasting between them, trying to get a consistent message across to someone else.

Personally, I’m really happy to see this development as what it does is makes the browsing experience more useful to people who don’t have the technical skills to build stuff from scratch. Casual users shouldn’t need to learn those skills, just as you shouldn’t need to learn how to rebuild a carburettor is you want to drive a car. There’s even more information about this on Techmeme, so start reading!